(Review)

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This guide-book offers a number of Lake Champlain bike tours. The rides are throughout the Lake Champlain region, from the southern tip of the lake at the birthplace of the U.S. Navy in Whitehall, New York, to its northernmost bay, Mississquoi Bay in Quebec, west to Lake Placid, New York and extending east to the college town of Middlebury, Vermont.

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The author, Charles Hansen, has been riding and organizing bicycle tours around the area for over two decades. He’s researched and ridden these routes to create this book to serve all cyclists–from the hardcore roadie who wants the challenge of an 82-mile ride through the eastern Adirondacks, to the casual rider or family looking for a scenic and largely level afternoon outing.

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Several multi-day tours are proposed, including the ‘Lake Placid Weekender’ that starts from Burlington, Vermont and provides a scenic and highly satisfying two-day ride for touring cyclists. Route notes are provided for ‘The Grand Tour’- a nine-day circumnavigation of Lake Champlain with a rest day in Montreal, Quebec; as well as shorter variations of this tour.